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This months NinJava meeting will take place on Wednesday 30th October,
in the usual location of the 5th floor NetYear offices of Cerulean
Tower, Shibuya. The main talk will start at 7pm. A map can be found at:
http://www.ninjava.org/directions.html
The evening's main talk is entitled "Smart Card and Java Card
Technology" and will be given by Reto Grob of K Laboratory. The main
talk will be followed by time for questions, and then a short talk by
Michael Tuner of Leap, entitled "Software design patterns: what are
they, anyway, and why should you care?", which we hope to use as an
introduction to a re-starting on the design patterns study group. The
study group will take place each month after the main NinJava talk in
order to make it easier for more people to attend.
Please distribute this announcment and look forward to seeing you there.
The meetings agenda is as follows:
6:30pm - 7:00pm Refreshments (provided by Reto - thanks Reto)
7:00pm - 7:45pm "Smart Card and Java Card Technology" Main talk by Reto Grob
7:45pm - 8:00pm Discussion
8:00pm - 8:30pm "Software design patterns: what are they, anyway, and
why should you care?" short talk by Michael Turner
8:30pm - 9:00pm Discussion and preliminary Design Patterns Study Group DPSG
The talk abstracts and speaker biographies are as follows:
Main Talk Title: Smart Card and Java Card Technology
Main Talk Abstract:
While smart cards are tiny devices with few resources, they do have some
features which pc's or other mobile device do not; for example very
strong tamper proof security. Programming smart cards used to be a
difficult error prone task, especially if one wanted to support various
manufacturers. JavaCard, a common platform and micro virtual machine for
smart cards, has speeded up the development of smart card applications
and made them simpler and more robust.
Until recently smart cards were used only in few areas such as the
authorization of banking cards or in GSM networks for roaming and phone
setup. However the prevalence of advanced mobile devices, such as
Java-enabled mobile phones, means that smart cards can be integrated
with mobile phones to provide new types of solution.
The presentation will deal with the types and characteristics of smart
cards, how to develop applications in Java on smart cards, and present
issues and some outlook on the future.
Main Talk Speaker Biography:
Reto is Swiss and holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ. he has worked in
Switzerland, Finland and Silicon valley, and first came to Tokyo in 1999
to work for Hitachi's Research Lab on database integration and mobile
computing. In November 2000 he moved to the Mobile Phone Software
Company "K Laboratory" http://www.klab.org. He is also the creator of
the keitai dictionary system i-dix,
http://www.grob.ch/idix
Short Talk Title: Software design patterns: what are they, anyway, and
why should you care?
Short Talk Abstract:
Software design patterns sometimes seem to generate more confusion and
controversy than they could possibly be worth. This talk tries to
clarify what they are, and what they are good for. I will maintain a
"manager's guide" level of technical sophistication except for the most
detailed examples.
Short Talk Speaker Biography:
Michael Turner is a 7-year resident of Tokyo. He divides his time
between writing, teaching, editing, occasional dabbling in software, and
helping his wife run a ryokan. He is a 20-plus year veteran of the
computer industry, a topic on which he can sometimes be explosively
bitter, especially if you talk to him too early in the morning.
Received on Mon Oct 21 16:32:15 2002